Preparing for post-catastrophe video processing
Anton van den Hengel, Henry Detmold, Anthony Dick, Rhys Hill · 2007
ABSTRACT: The spread of video surveillance systems and video phones means that video cameras are more ubiquitous than ever before. In the event of a catastrophe the video captured by these cameras is an important source of information for those directing the response. This information is currently either ignored because it is seen as inaccessible, filtered through the media, or requires a huge commitment of human resources in order to perform the required processing. We present here an approach towards acquiring and processing this video in order to extract as much value as possible within the shortest time period. The approach presented allows flexible, intelligent video processing to be carried out quickly and securely. BIOGRAPHY: The authors are at the University of Adelaide, Australia. Dr. van den Hengel is director of the Australian Centre for Visual Technologies, and conducts research in automated video surveillance in collaboration with authors Dick and Hill. Dr. Detmold has extensive experience in software architecture research, and is currently working on scalable software architectures for large scale video surveillance networks. 1